Sofia, Bulgaria Travel Blogs

28 Days Later
Jun 28, 2006

... The cops come to our compartment, ask the two old dears who had been crossing themselves for the last ten minutes where they're from... "Bulgaria" they say in unison. "OK", the guy says.... Then to me. "British", say I. "WHAT?" "Er, English?" "OK" ...

How We Ended Up In A Sofia Strip Club Is......
Jun 30, 2006

... . We were at this bar called Upstairs which has a balcony looking over the main street - ideal for drinking and people watching. Sofia rightly earns it's Lovely Women Also tag. After a few hours and many drinks, we moved on to find to our horror that ...

Sites, sun and mojitos
Sep 16, 2007 (14 photos)

Took a cushy bus to Sofia today...walked through the construction site in the hotel lobby to our triple room, battling dust and other musty smells, had lunch at Micky d's...saw 3 historical churches including one from Roman times, the ...

Sofia and Rila Monastery
Aug 8, 2005 (8 photos)

A bus and cab ride later we were in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria. The weather had turned horrible and cold again so we had to pull out the gortex. There were no Bulgarian grannies to meet us at the bus station so we had to find a hostel. Our first dorm ...

Into Bulgaria
Aug 10, 2006 (4 photos)

... Said: So after an interesting (and surprisingly relaxing) fourteen hour train ride we arrived today in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. Having a private sleeping car makes riding the rails quite pleasant! It was sort of a strange coincidence that the ...

afternoon/evening in Hostel Mostel
Aug 18, 2008

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Not too much happening in Sofia
Sep 13, 2007 (6 photos)

3 weeks of catching up over coffees and beers. A lot of coffees and a lot of beers. That was all.

The Istanbul Islands
Jun 28, 2008 (6 photos)

... and out of the city. After saying our so longs to Debra and Kim, Phin and I head to the train station and hop on an overnight to Sofia to start a 3-day train adventure through what would turn out to be some very interesting landscapes...

Chapter 48: Entering Eastern Europe
Aug 14, 2004

... 's Go Europe 2003" (not ideal, but useful for places that won't warrant individual guidebook purchases), and bought a bus ticket to Sofia, Bulgaria for the next morning. The bus trip yesterday was long (9 hours) and dull, and it was broken up only by ...

Sofia the no-man land
Aug 17, 2008 (16 photos)

... , alcohol unimaginably cheap.  It is Saturday night and Sofia supposedly has good night life, but we should get some beauty sleep for tomorrow's trip.  We are visiting the best sightseeing place in Bulgaria: Rila Monastery. 

Sofia
Jun 25, 2008

... , rila, meeting with nikolay minkov uconomics, abandoned factories and hand labor in fields from train, harvesting hay. Sofia trams. Playing music, walking around the churches and streets, belowground stores, Hostel Mostel to Rila, Divaka restaurant, ...

Entering Europe
Aug 11, 2007

... great English, Tanzanians and Kenyans likewise. Things dropped off as we went up through the Middle East and dropped another level in Bulgaria. And we know that very few people over the age of 25 speak any English at all in Slovakia. Having said that, ...

The End of Eastern Europe
Jan 3, 2008 (60 photos)

... were leaving before whenever arrived.  Anyway, Transylvania was awesome, not to be missed in Romania. Our train to Sofia in Bulgaria was physically uncomfortable, but quite fun.  We couldn't get a sleeper cabin, so sat in a compartment with ...

Sofia
Sep 16, 2007 (8 photos)

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Sofia
Oct 12, 2008 (8 photos)

Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria.  It has a long history of turmoil as many Central European  ...

Terrible journey from Budapest to Sofia
Jun 4, 2006 (2 photos)

... wait it out, and whatever wrecked and blocked the road eventually got out of the way, and we made it to Bulgaria, and eventually Sofia. I hungrily devoured some 10 am late dinner McDonald's, got directions to my hostel, and have now spent a very tired ...

More Monasteries
Aug 8, 2005 (6 photos)

... had a day trip to the Rila mountains. We were going there as we wanted to see the Monastery there. It is very famous here in Bulgaria and it has frescoes all over it. We booked a day trip through another hostel as we did not want to stay there and we did ...

Sofia
Nov 14, 2000 (3 photos)

We headed from Istanbul into Bulgaria which was a bit of an unknown destination as we hadn't meet too many people who had ventured into this country and again once we arrived in Sofia there was next to no tourists about. We had definitely also turned a ...

Sofia as well as I can remember it...
Jun 4, 2006

... it is the number of days until Bulgaria will (probably) join the European Union. EU dynamics are extremely important and interesting in Bulgaria and Turkey, and the importance to citizens is immeasurable. Day 3 was spent trying to get to the top of a ...

Cafes of Bulgaria
Sep 16, 2004

I wouldn't have thought to tack Bulgaria onto a trip to Europe, but my friend Alex, who I met in the Peace Corps, provided the perfect excuse. She's been living in Sofia for the past year, teaching English, working for USAID, and getting a basic grasp of ...

Hannah's Birthday!
Jan 14, 2009

... spend a birthday, although, I told Hannah that we have spend other birthdays doing far less than waiting in a train station in Bulgaria.  She soon agreed and we started to enjoy our cafe experience.  Luckily, this cafe -as most places in Bulgaria ...

Bulgaria
Sep 8, 2008 (2 photos)

Took an overnight train from Istanbul to Sofia, Bulgaria. The trip took 14 hours and at 3am all the passengers were herded off the train and forced to sit outside in the middle of nowhere for two hours while Turkish customs officials processed passports. ...

Bulgaria
Nov 2, 2006 (22 photos)

... membership on 1.1.2007. An university student that I met at a cafe was concerned about the compatibility issue when Bulgaria gains full membership. I had Bulgarian banitsa - cheese filled pastries - for breakfast in Sofia. There are pizza joints all ...

A day in Bulgaria
Aug 6, 2006

... . After that we walked down the main road and saw some more government buildings and the tour leader told us about Communism in Bulgaria. It was very interesting to hear from someone who has lived it. After that we saw more churches, and then to the St ...

Sofia, Bulgaria
May 27, 2007

... around noon.  It took just over an hour to get through, which was apparently significantly shorter than last year's crossing (Bulgaria just joined the EU this past January). We stopped at a fairly run down service station for lunch. We were ...

Sofia
Jul 9, 2006 (12 photos)

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Head uut 2009. aastat!
Jan 1, 2009 (23 photos)

Aastavahetus oli meil planeeritud ühes mõnusa interjööriga restos. Nime ei mäleta ja mis sellest ikkagi oleks kasu, sest see oli nende viimane üritus enne pankrotti. Et kuhugi kohta saada, tuleb tellida pakettmenüü. Nende menüü oli vist 6-käiguline ja sisaldas isegi ...

Sofia
Sep 11, 2007

... was in walking distance. We walked down into the subway to find an archaeological site of the original gates of the city from the 2nd century. To see pictures of Sofia, copy and paste this URL into a new browser window: http://tinyurl.com/yvdwaa

Rila Monestary
Sep 12, 2007

We hired a driver to take us to Rila Monrestay, in the Rila Mountains, founded in the 10th century but rebuilt after a fire in the 19th century. What a fantastic place! We should have stayed the night, but didn't know. The monks rent rooms, as part ...

Part 1 - The first half
Feb 25, 2006 (12 photos)

... and we played Sega Rally, usual rubbish. The flight was nothing of any interest, 3 1/2 hours, no issues and we arrived in Sofia as planned. It was then that the good news started. Firstly we found that we were in Borovets and secondly we had got a 3- ...